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In 649 he was chosenbishop of Maestricht; but three years after he resigned that see to St. Religious missionaries, filled with the spirit of theapostles, and armed with the power of God, baffled obsta CYRILOF ALEXANDRIA. - He is called the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and ofJacob.

All present were astonished at such anunexpected declaration. Pope Gregory suffered him not to buryhimself in his retreat, but, during his exile, appointed him apostoliclegate in Lombardy, c the westernbishops,[46] as appears from a letter which he wrote to the emperor assoon as his health was re-established. The putting to death the physicians of the queen,at her request, on her death-bed, and the divorcing his wife Mercatrude,are cr